The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT. FOU',F, OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 23 pri,cekded ill Appedls. 1 lie R .‘ , ,cur wits mciticil by Commission t o H.- ),000,0001. Exchequer Bills Bill, and the ies 8 , 11. nit. Commissioners were, the Lord Ch:antl kr, t;ie Marquis of Winchester, and the Earl'ot Sipistts:,urv. . inhume presented four Quarterly Ac counts 4)t t he Commissioners of Westminster 13. ide.—Ordered to lie upon the table. The M.,t,uis of LAssoorvrte prebented a petition from Darlington, in. the County of Durham, ng4inst the employment of Climbing Boys iu the s,,,ping of c_himuies.—Ordered to lie upon the . table. Lard fIot_LAND presented a petition from the Lnid Mayor, -kldermen, and Common, Council of -London, praying for an immediate. impartial, and rigid inquiry into the conduct of Ministers, in•the exercise of the powers entrusted to them tinder the Susr-nsion of ttie Habeas Corpus Act..—Or tiered to lie upon the !able. . • REPORT OF THE SECRET COMMITTEE. Thy• I).itte of MoN•rxose presented the Repor of the Seert:CCOmmiitee. The Rep/Irt was read by" the Reading Clerk, at the tAbie . : The follo:ving is the substance Pie Cominittee having taken into considera tion the Papers referred to them, thought it right to divide their Report under two heads : first, the slate of these districts since the Report of the Se cret Committee of the 12th June, in which dis- turb►+nets had then taken place, .or movements to that effect had been observed ; and, secondly, the mode in which the powers entrusted to his 111 - jesty's Ministers, Hid er the two Acts for stispetr ing the Habeas Corpus Act, held been exercised. " The Committee then advert to a passage in the Report of the Secret Committee, of the 12th June, stating, that there was reason to believe that the intended Insurrection had been postponed till the 9,11 or 1C141) of Jtine ; and that, according to circumstances, it might be still further post poned. 'The Coinmittee proceed to state, that on . the 9th Jima an - insurrection actually did take place,. in Derbyshire, headed by a person who gent trot» Nottingham for the purpose, and w.ho was therefore called the Nottingham Captain. That though the numbers engaged in this insur rection were not considerable, they displayed a most ferocious and sanguinary spirit ; they were armed, sonic with muskets and others with pikes, Uhich had been previously manufactured for the purpose ; they broke open several houses, for the purpose of stealing arms ; used menaces and vio lence for the purpose of forc , ng men to join them, a 4 ,443 actually committed One siviiburate :not wan ton m rdvr. It appeared also that these persons, thua - ia insurrection,- were acting in concert With others at Nottingham, a part of tvhom were to be stationed in Nottingham Forest, to wait for the li,,urgelits from Derbyshire, who were to join them early in the morning of the 10rh; The .Der by.:hlre l!ist)ri:ents, it appeared, actually proceed ed tow irds Nottingham, for the 'purpose of, effect in z this junction, but they were deserted on the toAd, awl in different villages they passed through, by several of their body, who became convinced of the danger of their proceedings. The wain b"ly, however, from Derbyshire, continued to proce e d towards Nottingham, but owing to their delays by the way, for the polpose of committing robberies, they came too late. " It appeared likewise, Wiat on the 9th June there was considerabk Agitation at Nottingham, and that at twelve o'clock at night there were 100 persons tlravii up on the Mace-course in line, two deep, for the poirpose of waiting for the 111- surgems froin Derbyshire. They continued there till two in the morning, when the Derbyshire In surgents not arriving, they returned into the town. Subsequently, there were symptoms of distutb ance, awl the Magistrates out the Military from the liavracks, • who dispersed the rioters. The D:4l)vshire insurgents having then advanced towards Nottingham, the Military were sent out against them, who succeeded in dispersing them, and several of the Insurgents were taken into cus tody. " The Committee considered all this to have been clearly proved in the course of the trials at Derby. The Grand Jury sitting at Derby in July, found trite bTs against forty-six persons for High Treason ; of these four were tried in the October following, convicted, and sentenced to death ; three of the four were execut e d, t h e fourth wa s pardoned, on condition of tran'sporta lion. Several - others confessed their guilt, to svl!orn merry was extended ; and others, whom the Government did not wish to prosecute, were iu con•equence acquitted, " It .aprared, however, that, besides Not ling ham, there was a previous Concert at other plalies . Nuttier ted with the . Derbyshire Ins urreet On,' and particularly in the West Riding of Yorkshire.— At a pace called Thornhill Lees, there was a metling of prisons calling themselves Delegates, mi the 6th of June, for the purpose of arranging the plan of the Insurrection. The Magistrates in that quarter, having information - of the Meeting, went there with a sufficient force, stud took several of the parties into custody. This, it was believed, had materially deranged the plans of the Insur gents several of the Chiefs having been thus taken into custody, and the project by this means in some degree frustrated. At Huddersfield, also, there had been an armed assemblage at night, who committed several tobberies and burglaries, and fired upon the Chief Constables. Against svveril persons, forbeing concerned in these out ra rw, true bilk were tonrid by the Grand Jury at „ v {,' consequeucv of the thfficulty of hew, they were subsequently acquitted (411 the ,Yirds. HppeAred, however, no doubt of the concert ,-! connection between t!►ese different ; and it aliio appeared, that the surgents calculated, whztlrar truly or not, upon the assistance of it considerable force from London. " The Committee deemed it unnecessary to dwell at greater length, upon these various acts of insurrection, the greater part having been prord to the satisfaction of a Grand Jury of the county of Derby, and of the several Juries who were im patmeled to try the prisoners at Del by in October last. • "%-, • , • " ' The Committee:however, (teemed it right to state. that not only generally throughout the country, hut more particularly in the disturbed districts, the great body of the-people were peace able and loyal, and tint/tinted by any insurrec tionary spirit. And front the improvement in the state of the country, and the increased demand for labour, there was not now the same stimulus to di,content which existed at the thne of the former Report, when the great distress of a num ber of individuals -rendered them peculiarly sus ceptible of being seduced by the ars of those who sought to render them instruments for the vilest of purposes. lint it Must not be concealed, that there still remained in London several peisons, however diminished in numbers and resources,, who endeavoured to keep alive the spirit of insur rection, and whom it was therefore necessary to watch with the greatest vigilance. With regard to the second branch of their inquiry, it appeared to the Committee that inde pendently of the persons arrested who had been brought •to trial - or otherwise disposed of at Derby, there had been 44 persons arrested under warrants issued by the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Of these, seven were dis charged without any warrants being issued for their detention. Against 37, warrants were issued for their detention on suspicion of High Treason. Of these, one was discharged very soon after wards, the charge against hint not being persisted in. Another %YDS discharged on account of illness, and a third died in prison. The remainder we're discharged at substdpient periods, without being brought to trial. It was intended, it appeared, to bring these individuals to trial, but circumstances intervened to prevent it at the period when it was intended, and subsequently also other circum stances occurred to prevent it. " The Committee, however, were of opinion, that the powers entrusted to his Majesty's Minis ters under the Suspension Act had been exercised with discretion and mildness, and that much had been effected by the loyalty, the' vigilance, and activity of the Magistracy, Ivlotse exertions had produced the most important effects." On the motion of the Duke of MONTROSE the Report was ordered to lie upon the table, and to be printed. The Earl of GROSV ENOR observed, that the Re port was little more than a transcript of the pro ceedings at Derby, and afforded scarcely any new information. Nothing, be thought, could be less satisfactory to the House than a Report like the present, accompanied by no evidence whatever. It was said there was danger in pointing out those' who had given information (there could be noire, however, with regard to Mr. Oliver), but even so, what objection could there he in giving the evidence in .blank, by which the safety of no in dividual Would be compromised This would be, at any rate, much more satisfactory than making assertions without any evidence to support them. The Earl of CARNARVON presented a Petition front certain Manufacturers, &c. at Manchester, complaining of the misrepresentation of that town in the last Report of the Secret Committee ; and alleging that there was no conspiracy there, 'or tendency to insurrection.—Ordered to lie upon the Table. His Lordship also presented Petitions from William Ogden, John Sellars, Guy Grey, and John Akers, complaining of having been arbitra rily imerisoned and harshly treated. These . Pet itions having been universally read, were ordered to lie upon the Table. The bad of LIVERPOOL. said, it was the inten tion of his Noble 'Friend (Lord" Viscount Sid ;00o11.) to present a Bill on Wednesday, founded on the subject matter of-the Report of the Secret Committee. It was also intended to move the second reading of this Bill on Friday. SLAVE TRADE. Lord HOLLAND adverted to the Address of the House to the Throne, praying that the Colonial Assembli e s in the West Indies might be urged to adopt such measures as might be most effectual for preventing any traffic in Slaves, and wished to be informed whether Ministers meant to bring the subject under consideration; by presenting the Acts of the ColOnial Legislatures-relating to this subject ? He did not mean this - in any hostility to Ministers, who, he had no doubt, had done all . . in their power to urge the Colonial Assemblies to adopt the requisite measures ; nor ,ctid he doubt the disposition of the latter. He kuew, indeed, that in Jamaica measures to the effect desired had been adopted under the auspices of the Noble Duke who presided there as Goveinor, and whose conduct in that situation was equally honourable to the Government here awl advantageous to the interests of the Island. The. Eirl BATtio UST we could not distinctly hear. We understood bis Lordship to state, that the whole of the Acts of the Colonial Legislatures upon the subject had not yet been received ; and that, therefore, it was thought most advisable not to bring the subject untier consideration till they had oil come to hand. Adjourned till to-morrow (this rlay) • *,*. For the Proceedings in the House - of Corn• pious, see the last page. One w9ldu have inragun:d that the numerous tales, ‘vhich are at present circulating with so mach industry in every circle, would have with drawn the attention of the Public from the merits of the present Lottery, did we•not know that a Scheme, which at time same time•pc”..- esses Three izes of . 30,0001.—0ne Hundred Capitals—and Twelve Pipes of tine Old Port—iS a novelty not often presented to the Public, but which they know so weli how to appreciate.--The only pies tion to he determined, therefore, is, .where shall we nm,mke our Purchases ?--The atiswer is, at CA R ROLL'i, 7 , ILI., and 26, OXFORD -STH EET, because he Sold the Last Prize of 30,0001, ever drawn, and because he also Sold, in time Last Lottery, SIX Capital Prizes, including - Two - of 20,0001. LITERARY REVIEW. CURSORY OBSERVATIONS upon the TRANSACIIONS of the LAST SESSION of PARLIAMENT; inscribed to the Right Honourable RoaEfir PEEL. By a Member (Stile late Irish Parliament. • " Celebrare domestica facia." Printed for RICHARD MILLIREN, Our Readers will recollect that, during the lay summer, we commenced the plan of extracting the opinions of the several Conductors of tht Country Newspapers, on public events and na tional measures, and we inserted them occasion ally under the title of PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. — We have, however, thought it better to pursue this plan under that of THE COUNTRY, as more characteristic of the feelings and sentiments of the People at large. We were first induced, to adopt the plan by our observation of the sound sense and real patriotism which marked the re spective Provincial Journals, and the great supe riority of knowledge and talents which they, dis played in comparison with most of the Newspaper Editors of the Metropolis. The liberality of the Provincial Journalists also struck us as another mark of their moral superiority over moot of the ' London Editors, as well as their political know ledge, rectitude, and sagacity, for in all the in teresting articles which they take from the Lon doll, or from other Provincial Journals, they usually subjoin the name of, the original News paper. Not so the Editors of the Metropolis— • from the pitiful influence of pride, spleen, or jea lousy, they copy interesting • facts from other Journals, without acknowledgment, and in their disputes never mention the names of- each other, except from partiality to one, or pique against another. Thus the Provincial Journals are ex empt from the paltry passions, as will as thensordid interests, of most of those of the Metropolis.— Our practice shall continue to he wholly different ; ‘‘lt;-n we take important facts from other Jour nals, we shall acknowledge the source, and -when we Oppose their doctrines, detect their falsehoods, or refute their sophistry, we shall mention their names without fear or hesitation.—But now to the Work, the - title of which forms the head of this article. After the prorogation of Parliament last year, we were struck with an admirable de fence of the conduct of Administration, which appeared, in detached portions, in The (Dublin) Correspondent, and we copied them into THE SUN, expressing our hope, that when the whole was concluded, they would be collected, and embodied in a Pamphlet. We cannot flatter ourselves that this suggestion led to their present form; but we are highly gratified that the .Writer has adopted the measure, as - the Work contains an able and luminous vindication of the whole system of. nisters ; and, if they are not above the vulgar feelings of gratitude, an►! even justice, they will endeavour to discover the Author, and, at least, manifest their thanks for the eminent service which he has rendered to them, it their patronage is not wholly devoted to early connexions, or parliamentary interests, as has often, we trust, falsely, as well as invidiously, been alleged against them. We on anon no ,we kayo dis charged our obligations to several valuable Cor- respondents, resume our attention -to this exce lent Work, but at present shall only subjoin the Dedication, which is addressed to one of the most able and eloquent of our Statesmen, and whose property and expectations place him tar above any impulse but that which arises from TRUE PUBLIC SPIRIT, and ENLIGHTENED PATRIOTISM. " TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT PEEL. " have consented that the following ob servations,. which, have been :Arcady publicly dis persed, by means of the important circulation of the correspondent Newspaper, should be collected, and 'prepared for re-publication, in a connected and compact form. The motives of those who have taken the pains to bring them out of their first disunited state, are to me of very little im portance ; my own motives, 1 do not hesitate to say, were, that I may have even this opportunity of testifying my respect for a Public Minister of the Suite, who, though personally unknown to me, is officially known, admired, and honoured by every honest man in Ireland. I "It would be' very difficult, indeed, for any man who loves his country, to call to recollection the principal transactions of the last Session of Parliament, without feeling the importance of the share which von have had in those which affect the most serious interests of this part of the United hin t .0111—its public peace, and the Es tablished Religion. You found the country in dis order and turbulence—and you found the I'rotes• rant Religion left to float'on the current of parlia mentary controversy, exposed tolhe casualties - to which rash and inconsiderate notions may doom it ; and you stretched out a powerful hand to save it from .any new adversity, from the effects of in difference in those who should ' , rave gloried in be ing its supporters, and from the hostility of others who will never intermit in their designs against it. You sustained its interests against powerful and able - Ministers, amongst others, whose minds are not quite secure against the de ceitful liberality of the day ; and you supported the Established Religion, and the Constitution with which it is identified, - with great powers of reason, and with a noble independence of spirit, which is justly valued, and universally applauded. Even they, whom principle or prejudice may have prevented front feeling the _frill influence of your reasoning, admire the manliness and the - honesty, the temper and the talent, with which it was exerted. "Your firmness, perseverance, and ability in the true and sound knowledge of Goxernment and Legislation, have converted the abode of rapine, and of all sorts of public crimes, into the resting place of Law, and civil authority and repose. Ireland, Sir, owes you profound obligations, for having opened the first wide views of Constitu tional expedients, for the suppression of open vio lence. To your calm and enlightened spirit, to your great resources in those qualities which tnake an able Statesman, the people .of Ireland have looked up in hope and reliance, during times of general calamity and distress ; and they have found their confidence greatly requited, and their patience happily rewqdcd and justified, in the effects of your measureh ; and it) , the lonefiti at their results. " That the advantages of y ou r Administr a- 0 may be stilt contimmd to Irel a nd, is•the onive rg o , wish of all pouffes, fictions, and sects which I R . habit it. Those - r • :never agreed before/ gi n t ' l cordially in thik—=that 'o'iriore honest, PPr i g,: e able and efTeclive Statesman never conducted ti I{ffaill or ‘ratched over the interests of this coo n try ; and if, after your retirement from . 101 it „ official stati on amongst us, our spirit of " clir be a auce should continue to display itself, it mus t , in the common wish, th a t y our susce ssory " .11 : )e ! „ -1 0 he may be, m a y t a k e y ou f or hi s gu ide, and t° l, ";i t in all things th e a d in i ra bl e exa mple of V I- • conduct. " I have the honour to be, Sir, with unfeigned admiration Or , and profound resp ec t, y our h um ble servA . 4 THE AUTEIa.-4 THEAIB ICA!, REGISTEL Performed Last Night.• 4 ride B THEATRE ROYAL, DRU R Y-L ANE .—( llt h ti me ), The l u t e: Abydos: Selim, Mr. Kean ; Zulieka, Mrs. MvilYo• which, No Sung No Supper.. Cr • THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-G ARDEN .—(Gth time). Faz n : t ifte ralfili Fazio, Mr. C. Kemble ; Bianca, Miss O'Neill* which, Harlequin Gulliver. • We feel much regret that we are obl;ged to defer LAO till to-morrow. of t he ERRATUM.—In our account y es t er d ay o f th e Meeting Highland Society of Loadon, - -for " Mr. . 70°$ " °Fs's read " JOHN Ross." MAILS. " ift , i er ' ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 1 Holland, 1 France. Du 67.." TS" , ' ford, 1 Gucrnsey and Jersey, 3 Gottenburgh o I naw-11 g r 0 04 Sr. MATTMAs.:--Holiday at the Bank, Exchetr" and South Sea Hoiises; HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO. 1%10 1111 „97:5. Morning, 4'2 minutes after 4..1 E ven ing, 7 minutes THE SUN. SALEM QUIS DICEAE AVVEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1818• of rs \Ve received this rooming the Paris Pall e t Saturday last. They continue completely s ile° respecting the attack upon the Duke of ToN, with the exception in the Journal de Far of some quotations from a n d remar k s 0P" of the London Journals; The Times and T 1 1.-e . a Times, contrasting the obs ervat i ons insetl ed : f them with relation to this subject. The f°llD-' ing are extracts:— " " Etats, FEC. 21.—1 t it said, that the C°lll* mittee of the Chamber of Peers on the Recrtlit. ment Projet will propose some nmondmv-rate, ° S. of which, amongst whets, will have for its o b. jest to exempt the Veteran Legionaries who 111' married from serving in the Army of Reserve• t r abieLei‘titaetrisamferoman from A s l o b n i state . has :at h i engt h, det er.. mined speak out, an d t h at s h e h a s Mad e 1115' tat the impene closures of extreme importance. io r at " The individ ua l, arreste d on Wednes(' f the Thug!cries, who called himself Cha rles °, Navarre, was f ormer ly a Broker; be b ad ( confined on account of insanity, but had bee" charged a few days since, being supposed ° bit • cured. His family, doubting the reality al recovery, were-about to place him again in co t' , finement, when be exhibited the proof of which caused his arrest. e tool ° " Mathurin Bruneau, calling - XVII. was convicted on Thursday, an ti se t' tenced to pay a fine •of 3,000 francs ; be imprisoned f o r fi ve y ears f or t h e offence farl'` had been convicted of, an d t wo years further ,1 his contempt of the Court during the Trial; iin „ after the termination of his imprisonment , t ° ; main at the discretionary disposal of Goveronlenof he is, besides, condemned to pay three.fourtbs the expences of the Trial. " The Chamber of Deputies, in theirßor ei' continued yesterday the examination of the el.°. jets respecting the Budget and the Customs , '" There is no day yet fixed for the next PObil sitting. " The Duke of ‘Vellington dined on Thurs(l3l with the King and the Royal Family. " The Duke de Tarente reports to th e her of Peers on the Recruitment Projet on I'd day next. the " The Prince Regent of England has, of solicitation of the Hanoverian Generals, 20,000 francs to the Commune of Annapee , copied by the Hanoverian Contingent, in W bic there Was a dreadful fire in September last• " FIVE PEI; CENTS. " Friday .60 C. c " BALE, FEB. 14.—Osman Aga, a Chief Ogee of the Guard of the Pacha.of E g ypt, " v" rte' Saint Gall, has inserted in Th e Z u rich. Ga ze an article, for the purpose of contradicting th statements in the German Journals, and ass erting' that the Paella neither has nor ever had the interroc tion of exercising the rights of Sovereign l Y' does !le wish to render himself inderni'el:e of the subli me P orte . H e f urt h er s tates, tha t I -1 s,, ~it, 1111 411 kt .are kit te- at~ `4 ,:*,te 11 (1!i etr ic rpt) ti, , k 8 tai 1 tlf N qt v, s~ : ~ cj ~